Crews work to restore electricity in Northern Nevada

7:46 PM,
Jan. 30, 2014

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4:44 p.m. update

The snow and wet weather still has more than 400 Yerington customers without power, NV Energy reported Thursday.

"We've had outages throughout the day," spokeswoman Faye Andersen, said. "There have been other outages today that have been cleared up." ...

The snow piles on the electric lines and when it falls off, it causes the lines to vibrate and slap together, blowing fuses, Andersen said. At least one downed power line was reported in Yerington. Another caught fire at the Lyon County Animal Shelter in Silver Springs, but was quickly put out.